ISBN:
9780262342322
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Statement:
The MIT Press Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als What do science, technology, and innovation mean from Africa?
Parallel Title:
Print version Augusto, Geri What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?
DDC:
338.064096
Keywords:
Forschung
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Technologie
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Innovation
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Technologiepolitik
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africa?
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Technology-Social aspects-Africa
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Science-Social aspects-Africa
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Technological innovations-Social aspects-Africa
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Creative ability in technology-Africa
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Industrial policy-Africa
;
Africa-Social life and customs
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Technological innovations-Social aspects-Africa.
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Creative ability in technology-Africa.
;
Industrial policy-Africa.
;
Technology-Social aspects-Africa.
;
Science-Social aspects-Africa.
;
Creative ability in technology-Africa
;
Industrial policy-Africa
;
Science-Social aspects-Africa
;
Technological innovations-Social aspects-Africa
;
Technology-Social aspects-Africa
;
Africa-Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
;
Afrika
;
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
;
Lokales Wissen
;
Wissens- und Technologietransfer
Abstract:
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of "technology transfer" from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? -- Science, Technology, and Innovation: The Origins of Concepts -- African Science, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Snapshots -- Outline of the Book -- 1 The Place of Science and Technology in Our Lives: Making Sense of Possibilities -- Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation -- The Egyptian Mummification Saga -- Innovation and the Dangers of Internationalization: ICIPE -- Conclusion, or in Lieu Thereof -- Notes -- 2 The Language of Science, Technology, and Innovation: A Chimurenga Way of Seeing from Dzimbahwe -- Why Chimurenga Now? -- Spiritually Guided Warfare -- Sacred Animals -- Chimurenga as Laboratory: Chemical and Biological Weapons in Dzimbahwe? -- Discussion: Some Implications for the Concept of Innovation -- 3 The Metalworker, the Potter, and the Pre-European African "Laboratory" -- Laboratories without Buildings: Sites of Indigenous Metal Production in Precolonial Africa -- Homesteads as Laboratories for Pottery Production in Africa -- Discussion: Should Western Concepts Always Have African Equivalents? -- Conclusion: Toward a Decolonized African Science, Technology, and Innovation Practice -- 4 Plants of Bondage, Limbo Plants, and Liberation Flora: Diasporic Reflections for STS in Africa and Africa in STS -- Performative Research and Visualized Knowledge: Cabinets, Gardens, and Patches -- "To Set Going Something New": Assemblages, Visual Arts, and African Reinvention in the Americas -- Irregular Rearrangement and Imagination: An "Aesthetics of Resistance and Identity" -- Liberation Flora -- New Genealogies of Invention and Innovation -- Notes -- 5 Smartness from Below: Variations on Technology and Creativity in Contemporary Kinshasa -- Katrien Pype -- Innovations for the City -- Mystical Knowledge.
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Blacksmiths and Engineer Students -- Experts of the City -- Being Smart -- Conclusion: Scales of Urban Smartness -- Notes -- 6 On the Politics of Generative Justice: African Traditions and Maker Communities -- Generative Justice in African Traditional Society -- Generative Justice in Contemporary Sociotechnical Movements -- A Brief Introduction to Maker Movements in the United States -- Makerspaces in Africa -- Case Studies -- Conclusion -- Note -- 7 Making Mobiles African -- Mobiles and Place -- Constitutive Appropriation: An Analytical Perspective -- Is That a Landline in Your Pocket? -- Speaking the Language -- Mobiles, Language, and Technological Understanding -- Configuring a "Nigerian" Mobile Network -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Innovation for Development: Africa -- Introduction -- Africa Has a Pressing Need for Essential Human Services -- Essential Human Services Are Necessary Steps toward Development -- Countries Must Build Domestic Capacity for EHS as a First Step toward Development -- Capacity Building Is an Effective Innovation for Development Framework -- Foreign Aid Impedes Africa's Development -- Examples of Innovation for Development for Watsan Services -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Science, Technology, and Innovation in Africa: Conceptualizations, Relevance, and Policy Directions -- The History and Development of Science, Technology, and Innovation -- Africa: What We Already Know -- Measurement of Innovation in Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index
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